Members of the Ku Klux Klan, circa 1930 // Getty Images Have you been harboring a deep, dark, hidden desire to join the Ku Klux Klan? Well, now’s your chance. Apparently, the Klan, bastion of White Supremacy, is looking to “diversify and increase its membership to include Jews, black people, homosexuals and those of Hispanic…
The suspect in the Passover Eve killings of three people at two Jewish community centers in the Kansas City area has been identified as a notorious white supremacist and former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said suspect Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73, was once the…
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said she was “disappointed” in fellow Florida Jewish Democrat Alan Grayson’s likening of the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan. “Obviously I am disappointed in the use of that imagery,” Wasserman Schultz said in a statement to Politico. “Both sides need to…
An alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan tried to sell a mobile device to New York Jewish groups that “could be used by Israel to defeat its enemies.” Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, was arrested Tuesday following a more than one-year-long FBI sting operation, accused of developing a remote-controlled, truck-mounted device that would deliver lethal…
John McCandlish Phillips Jr., a longtime New York Times reporter who wrote about a Jewish man who became a senior Ku Klux Klan official, has died. Phillips, who as a journalist was admired for his style and integrity, died Tuesday in Manhattan from complications of pneumonia. He was 85. Phillips’ profile of Daniel Burros documented…
A slide on extremist threats lumping haredi Orthodox Jews, among others, with groups like the Ku Klux Klan and al-Qaida was used once and removed, the U.S. Army said. The slide, revealed Tuesday in a report by the London Daily Mail, lists under the rubric of “Religious Extremism” terms such as “evangelical Christianity (U.S./Christian),” “Ultra-Orthodox…
Oberlin College is not the first place that comes to mind as a hotbed of racism and anti-Semitism. Yet as an unsettling wave of hate has thrust the Ohio liberal arts school into the national spotlight, its Jewish community has spoken out and sought to use the incidents to build bridges across the campus. Jews,…
Oberlin College canceled classes to convene a “day of solidarity” following a series of racial and anti-Semitic incidents. Classes at the school in northern Ohio were suspended on Monday after someone wearing a Ku Klux Klan-like hood and robe was seen walking on campus, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. “This event, in addition to the…
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